Which to use
“empreinte” and “empreintes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,081
- “empreinte” frequency rank
- #10,494
- “empreintes” frequency rank
- 16575
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | empreinte | empreintes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Figure empreinte, impression, marque obtenue par pression. | Pluriel de empreinte. |
Same sound, different letters: empreinte vs empreintes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. empreinte runs 9 letters (VCCCVVCCV) against empreintes's 10 (VCCCVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - empreinte and empreintes
This is the hard kind. empreinte and empreintes are pronounced identically (\ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃t\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “empreinte” sits inside “empreintes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16575, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
empreinte is recorded at frequency rank #6,081, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃t\. empreintes is at rank #10,494, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃t\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 16575, this pair ranks #387,205 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of empreinte vs empreintes
Shared letters: eimnprt. Private to "empreinte": -. Private to "empreintes": s.
"empreinte" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVVCCV · "empreintes" · 10 letters · shape VCCCVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- empreinte ← emmpreinte · emperinte · emppreinte · empreinet · empreinnte · empreintte · empreitne · emprenite
- empreintes ← emmpreintes · emperintes · emppreintes · empreinets · empreinntes · empreintess · empreintse · empreinttes
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "empreinte" and "empreintes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "empreinte" or "empreintes"?
What to do next
"empreinte" and "empreintes" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "empreinte" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "empreintes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #387,205 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "empreinte" and "empreintes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "empreintes vs empreints". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #387,205 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.